terrified - Story 148857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead light hummed in the otherwise silent study, its sterile glow reflecting off the glossy paper. Emily felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Her father’s bucket list. She felt a tremor in her hands as she read it: *Learn to cook a five-course meal*. She gulped, her throat suddenly dry.

The second item was a little more relaxed: *Visit a museum*. Emily felt a shiver run down her spine. The next entry was what caused it: *Go to a casino*. Emily's jaw clenched. The final entry, scrawled with a heavy hand, made her want to retreat: *Publish a book*. She couldn't believe it.

She blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision. The room seemed to be closing in.

Emotion: terrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.97 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion terrified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 terrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the terrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the terrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.357
`worse`	0.350
`无法`	0.334
`😰`	0.333
`sickening`	0.322

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.676
`a`	-0.392
`de`	-0.371
`"`	-0.344
`happy`	-0.309